Thursday, March 31, 2016

Tumbleweed Contessa's Poetry -- Surely You Jest

I'm working on a character for a new book, a woman who has become a woman being used. I'm discovering that it's better for the person who doesn't know how to be in an honest relationship to be an asshole for telling the other person they aren't interested or that they've lost interest than it is to keep the other person in an emotional purgatory where they think they have a chance.

What kind of person leads another into believing they are loved and then walks away without a word? They're ALWAYS so so so busy. Hey, aren't we all? They fall into being the responder and never the Initiator. You hear more about what they did with an ex-lover than how happy they are with you. Huge Red Flags are huge red flags for a reason.

When the one being deceived begins realizing something is amiss, well, maybe they will have something like this poem to say.

You can’t just come into my lifeand tell me you love meas much as I love you,and begin to matter,and become an important part,and then set me in a dark holeaway from every part of your lifeand just walk awaywithout saying a word,leaving nothing but a hole in my chest.

About Me shoots over to my Google page

I'm a recovering IT Quality Assurance Manager who refuses to spend even one minute sharing facts about privacy because I'm now busy putting words into someone else's mouth -- I now provide excellent driving instructions from the shotgun seat. This is the place where I share some of the poems I have written/published as the Tumbleweed Contessa, As for me personally, I am looking (sometimes desperately) for that sweet balance between growing old gracefully and staying as young as possible for as long as possible while I spend hours painting, and writing, and way too much time finding new ways to over use ellipses... seriously... :)

I love my coffee so much I travel with my coffee maker

I'm a news and politics junky

I'm definitely into books of most genres

Cable TV free and loving it...seriously, why PAY to watch TV when there's so much more to life?

I love words but, IMHO, just okay at Scrabble

I am very nice...just ask anyone (except those who don't think I am) LOL

I used to eat cake; now I just rub it on my thighs...well, it's going to end up there anyway, right?

Being a retired Pug Herder, I now live with, and love, my only PUG PUPPY-BOY C2 (Second Chance/Chance the Second -- so named because his name was Chance but he had life-saving surgery, so now...)

I used to be a really, really good dancer, now I'm just trying to stay on my bicycle

This is pretty much the first cross-genre book, I think, I have read and while I would like to give each of the stories in the anthology a review; I won't. Who'd want to read it except the individual authors and the editor/contributor......

Romance novels can be hit or miss with me and I was surprised at how involved I became with the story in "Damn, Girl. That Sucks."
Heroine, Ivy, lacks some needed chutzpah, but readers can see right away that her vulnerability to perso...